FORTUNES IN A SINGLE MORNING.
A writer in London Sketch says : — " If Aladdin were to come among us now, we should not think much of him and his wonderful lamp. He raised a palace in a single night. Well, fortunes are made in South African shares in a single morning, and without the aid of a ' djinn. 1 Mr. Barnato tots up a million or so before lunch. Two Irish patriots, who Btarted in West Australian speculation a few months ago with six hundred pounds, are now worth cix hundred thousand. A wellknown black-and-white artist, who went out to Australia merely' to draw pictures, dabbled in 'calls' and ' options ' on the steamer, and found himself the possessor of ten thousand pounds. Who would make pictures if he could be sure of such a stroke of finance ? I expect Fleetstreet to rise like one man, and &ay, 'No more paragraphs ! No moro " Small Talk !" ' We are off to the Antipodes to mnke millions !' When £ think that, instead of turning this column, I might be a millionaire, I am amazed at my devotion to journalism."
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Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 125, 23 November 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)
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183FORTUNES IN A SINGLE MORNING. Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 125, 23 November 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)
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